When Critique Is Rebranded as Ethnic Betrayal
The backlash followed a familiar script.
If you criticize the Pakistan Peoples Party’s 18-year grip on Sindh, you are not wrong—you are racist.
If you question governance failure, you are not dissenting—you are anti-Sindhi.
If you ask uncomfortable questions, your loyalty is suddenly suspect.
That framing is not new. It has been deployed before—after fires, floods, and collapses—whenever accountability edges too close to power.
Tweets accusing Hashmi of being pro-MQM, anti-Sindhi, or a media pawn flooded timelines, often amplified by party-aligned accounts. Yet few addressed the substance: why does Karachi keep burning, collapsing, drowning, and decaying?









































